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Ingrid Syrstad Engen

THE PIVOT HAS IMPROVED ITS PERFORMANCE

Engen aims high: The Norwegian wants her Champions League with Barça

Published:19/12/2022 - 13:24h

Updated:19/12/2022 - 13:24h

FC Barcelona relied just over a year ago on the signing of Norwegian international Ingrid Engen to be its new pivot. Although there was a slow start, the player has been able to demonstrate her talent and is already clear about her goal for this course

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Ingrid Syrstad Engen has turned into few months in one of the best players of the FC Barcelona. The midfield player arrived in the summer of 2021 and has consolidated inside the team culé arriving already to the stage to feel that it has adapted almost completely to the football of the Barcelona team. "At the end it needed time, is a style of game very different to the that was accustomed", commented the player.

During an interview with 'Sport', the Norwegian footballer knows that also the current feminine football is marked by the immediate results and the performance in the short term. The modernity has done that almost any sport turn into a fast proof and always is difficult lidiar with this when it does not go out immediately, although the player has ensured that found the formula to do it.

The pivote has found the regularity that needed in his process of adaptation, explaining: "I seat Me with confidence, began to think in me, in how could improve my strong points and not treating to be another player". In a Barça Femení that practical the same style that all the others teams of the club, Engen knows very well that his position is surely the most important of all.

On his adaptation to the team and how has achieved to reach it, the Norwegian commented that "on the one hand, the players, especially the midfield players. Patri, Aitana, that always can attend to her, and Alexia. And on the other hand the technician and his 'staff'. They have put me videos, have analysed them... I seat that I am learning a lot and growing like player. I am in the best place for this".

A change of 180 degrees

The own player knows that it has taken a step forward in this season, signalling: "I seat Me very comfortable with the football, with the team, and when you seat you like this, play better". "It is a question to feel me more comfortable. I am pivote and although Patri does that it seem easy, is very complicated this position here. It did not imagine me that it went it to be so much. The past year thought too much in the field, now game of form more automatic, flow more", added the international with his country.

To finalise, Engen revealed which have sidos the most important points for his mejoría. "The placing, especially when have the balloon. It was accustomed to go of area to area and here, in the Barça, have to be always in the suitable position to recover and control. When this improvement, am better in defence and have also more occasions, because I am in the suitable place", analysed the footballer culé.

Thinking already in the last days of the 2022, the Nordic explained that "for me the Christmas means to go back home, with my family. I have not gone from the summer and have many win. It is a different climate obviously, will be nevando and with a temperature of less twenty degrees, but will be a very beautiful Christmas". On his wish for the next year, Engen did not doubt it: "Win the Champions with the Barça".